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Refresh Your Quilting Stash

Back to school season isn’t just for the kids, it’s for the quilters, too! Forget sharpening pencils and packing a lunch, ok quilters also like snacks so snacks are allowed, but now is the perfect time to take a look at your stash and restock your sewing and quilting essentials. Having a well-stocked supply of your go-to notions and fabrics makes it easy to sew whenever the mood strikes. Let’s go over the key items you’ll want to make sure are in your sewing room. Refresh your fabric stash. First things first, let’s talk fabric! If you’re

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September 1, 2024
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Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show 2024 Recap

Our head Mayhem Maker Mindy went to Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show and is giving us the low down of her adventures! What is Sisters? Every year on the second Saturday in July, the entire town of Sisters, Oregon transforms into an open air quilt show. The quilts are in every style and pattern and color, and they’re hung all over town. Literally. The whole town comes together and quilts are displayed on the fronts of buildings, draped between trees, hanging from tents, quilts are everywhere.    How was Mindy’s trip to Sisters? To put it into one word, it was

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August 3, 2024
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How to Go On A Fabric Diet

Ah, the smell of fresh fabric, the sound of silky threads running through your machine needle, and the thrill of a stack of patterns waiting to be brought to life - for a quilter, these are a few of our favorite things. Yet as we start a new year, many of us are considering a unique resolution that might initially sound like taking all the fun out of quilting: a fabric diet. What is a fabric diet? We’ve all heard that strict diets are the hardest to keep and most likely to fail. So let me assure

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January 16, 2024
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Holiday Gift Guide for Quilters

The holiday season is coming up fast, and it's time to show some extra love to each of the talented quilters and sewists in your life. However they love to stitch up a storm, our curated gift guide is here to help you find the perfect presents that not only make their projects more fun but also show how much you appreciate their artistry. Quilting Mayhem always works to bring you the best fabrics, essential tools, inspiring books and innovative gadgets, and our guide is a one-stop shop for bringing a smile to any stitcher’s

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November 17, 2023
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Build Your Stash with a Subscription Box

Picture this, you go to your door and find a box. You open the box and discover the most beautiful assortment of fabrics have arrived from your favorite quilt shop, aka Quilting Mayhem, and they’re just what you need to reignite your sewjo. You happily pet the fabric stack, adding some to your stash, some to the latest project you’ve been planning, and one goes with you to the shop to find the bolt. They’re perfect! It’s not a fantasy, it’s a Subscription Box from Quilting Mayhem!    My fabric subscription helps me instantly build variety in my

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May 18, 2023
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Quilting Mayhem’s Birthday Month

We’re feeling a bit nostalgic. May is Quilting Mayhem’s birthday month, and we’ve changed so much in the last eight years. Looking back to the beginning of everything, which seems so long ago, we opened our doors on 1st Street with 3,000 square feet of shop on May 1st, 2015. At the time, we had some fabric, only one classroom, and a longarm rental.  Fast forward to 2016 and we quickly began to grow. We added sewing and quilting machines to our arsenal with BERNINA and Handi Quilter dealerships. Our dreams of offering more for our

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April 30, 2023
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The Case for Quilt Shops: Why You Should Still Shop Locally

By Mindy Lennon, Founder of Quilting Mayhem If you are lucky enough to live near a locally-owned quilting or crafting store (like Quilting Mayhem in Snohomish, Washington), chances are, it has survived this long because it’s serving the needs of local creatives like yourself. Here are some of the many reasons you should shop local next time you run out of thread, fabric, notions, or project ideas: 1. Knowledgeable Staff Help You Find What You Need Quilting is a very specific form of art and creation and there’s always more to know. So why not shop where you might

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November 5, 2019